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FISHING AND HUNTING NOTES Sir Stuart Coates lately lauded a fortyeight pound salmon on the Tay and a question seems to have arisen as to whether this was not the record for the year in Scotland It anpcars however that an angler on the Dee lias to be credited with a fiftytwo pound fish one of the heaviest that famous river lias ever produced none having been known over fiftyseven pounds poundsA A case has just been quoted of a small duck like a teal being shot on November 25 1911 at Lerida in northeastern Spain bearing on the leg a ring which shows that it had been marked in Finland Apparently the bird was ringed in July 25 on a small lake in north Finland and in some four months and a half after being hatched had crossed Europe at its widest part from north to south southAngling Angling in Soutli America must be an exciting sport A traveler relates that for some time he lived almost entirely on a fisli called by the na ¬ tives Aymaras One uses a hook some six or seven inches long protected with tin for a foot or two where it joins the line so formidable are the crea ¬ tures teeth Aymaras range from eight to fifty pounds and come out of the water snapping like a bulldog The narrator says that he never took a large one into the canoe without sending a pre ¬ cautionary pistol bullet through its head headA A curious incident is reported by an officer with tiie British Expeditionary Forces While watering in a stream he states one of the horses of his com ¬ pany a heavy draft animal trod on and killed a pike The fish which scaled two pounds was duly retrieved and eaten Though the officer sup ¬ poses that the same tiling lias probably happened before he has never heard of an instance It is suggested that the water may have been muddy but it would have been imagined that this could hardly have accounted for the pikes lack of vision Badminton Magazine
